-ThePRInt.in A Delhi-based legal resource group says its study analyses district and high court case law pertaining to child marriage in India between 2008 and 2017. New Delhi: Child marriage cases in India have PRImarily been filed against incidents of elopement, as opposed to arranged or forced marriages, revealed a new study that aims to understand if the existing legislation — Prohibition of Child Marriage Act — serves its purpose. Delhi-based ‘legal resource...
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Academics, activists, writers seek immediate release of Bhima Koregaon accused -Malavika Murali
-Hindustan Times Those still in custody in the case include Anand Teltumbde, Hany Babu, Shoma Sen, Jyoti Jagtap, Ramesh Gaichor, Sagar Gorkhe, Sudhir Dhawale, Mahesh Raut, Arun Ferreira, Surendra Gadling, Sudha Bharadwaj, Gautam Navlakha, Rona Wilson, and Vernon Gonsalves Over 100 academics, activists, and writers issued a statement on Tuesday demanding immediate and unconditional release of all those arrested in connection with the violence at Maharashtra’s Bhima Koregaon in 2018 and the...
More »Central must connect all states to food scheme for robust PDS: Parliamentary Standing Committee -Raju Sajwan
-Down to Earth Only 15 states procure rice, 8 procure wheat as part of decentralised distribution scheme Only 23 states have implemented the Decentralized Procurement Scheme (DCP) so far — 15 to procure rice and eight to procure wheat — despite the scheme being in place for 23 years. This was flagged by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (Standing Committee) in a release dated August 13,...
More »Coal auctions: Modi govt's policy push to PRIvate miners will cost Chhattisgarh Rs 900 crore a year -Shreegireesh Jalihal & Tapasya
-Newslaundry.com The government has sold coal blocks for far cheaper PRIces than they fetched five years ago. In 2015, the Narendra Modi government auctioned two coal blocks in Chhattisgarh. Gare Palma IV/1 fetched a bid of Rs 1,585 per tonne while Gare Palma IV/7 was auctioned for Rs 2,619. The bid for the first block was too low, the government claimed amid allegations of cartelisation, and cancelled it. In case of the...
More »Construction Workers Try to Protect Rights Achieved After A Long Struggle in India -Bharat Dogra
-Countercurrents.org In the first week of August construction workers from several parts of the country organized protests in Delhi and submitted memorandum of their demands to the union government, including the Labor Minister and the PRIme Minister. Although the number of those joining the protest was kept low keeping in view COVID related precautions regarding travel and gatherings, construction workers from North to South were represented with representatives from Jammu and Kashmir...
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